Slashdot Mirror


User: Foofoobar

Foofoobar's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
2,414
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 2,414

  1. Re:Re-education on Hacker Uncovers Chinese Olympic Fraud · · Score: 0, Troll

    LOL. Oh you think what he has done for America is so great? In comparison to America's political rapists of the past, him, Dick Cheney, Karl Rove and the Republicans are the biggest corporate sellouts to foreign interests and oil barons that we have seen to date. True. No Hitlers. They just have decided to spy on us, try to get us to turn our neighbors in by started up programs like the soviet police did, listen in on our phone conversation, cease property without reason at airports, bus stations and border crossing and will require you to 'show your papers' on demand or be arrested.

    So maybe not HITLER but very Hitler-esque.

  2. Re:I imagine so as well on Hacker Uncovers Chinese Olympic Fraud · · Score: 1

    The IOC are making themselves look pretty scummy by association at the moment. They seem complicit in various pieces of fraud and dodgy dealings, and perfectly willing to help cover everything up.

    Seriously. First getting bought off by the Mormons and now the Chinese? Who next... the Scientologists??? Uh oh... I think I hear their lawyers calling.

  3. Re:Re-education on Hacker Uncovers Chinese Olympic Fraud · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I believe it's called waterboarding in the Bush administration.

  4. Re:Server 2008 = Windows 7 on One Third of New PCs Downgraded To XP? · · Score: 1

    Yep Ram is cheap but good development is cheaper. And forcing consumers to pay more for RAM when they could fix that in their product is unexcusable. How can it run better on XP with less RAM and processing power and even better on Mac??? Hmmmm...

    You excuse is that it's ok for producers to keep shoving crappy products onto consumers because the components to get them up to something usable are cheap and my argument is it should be usable by DEFAULT! You shouldn't need to upgrade to friggin 4GB and believe it or not, you already pointed out that you dont need to... you just WANT to. And for no other reason than to play a friggin game. No, not to further yourself, develop anything useful or even entertaining... just to wack off in a corner by yourself. Games and porn. Woot! Go pat yourself on the back for pushing the limits of evolution my friend with your 4GB of uselessness.

  5. Re:To save you 16 minutes, on Lessig On McCain's Technology Platform · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This is a good argument for selling the 'last mile' to consumers. Some companies are looking into selling the last mile to consumers or smaller communities that way they do not have to pay for the cost. This also would make a much better argument for net neutrality in consumers and communities owned the last mile.

  6. Re:Server 2008 = Windows 7 on One Third of New PCs Downgraded To XP? · · Score: 1

    The problem isn't the hardware it's the software. That's what is being implied. If you need 4GB of 4GHZ overclocked to play games and simple videos, your system is obviously badly built and poorly crafted software. My Mac laptop plays 1080p movies in high def without stutter on 2GB of RAM. I play Warcraft on the same laptop for hourse without interuption or lag.

    In Linux I can do the same an actually get better framerates. What you have is badly built software that requires you to spend more money to get it to act like a normal piece of hardware. For the money you have to spend to get it to act like a Mac or be as secure as one, you may as well have purchased one. Or just save a shitload altogether and go with Linux :)

  7. Re:Server 2008 = Windows 7 on One Third of New PCs Downgraded To XP? · · Score: 1

    Development sure.... play? I don't think so. You are playing the game at MAXIMUM GRAPHIC SETTING like a tard. Turn them down and VIOLA! Hey it's playable and it still looks decent! It's not PERFECT quality but get serious? Are you just a wank with a joystick or an actual developer? If you answered B, then you need that hardware. If you answered A, then you need to get a life, laid, and move out of your parents basement.

  8. Re:Server 2008 = Windows 7 on One Third of New PCs Downgraded To XP? · · Score: 1

    For the record, games do not require RAM... they require a GPU with lots of processing power. RAM has little to do with how fast your little games will run. It helps but not that much and 4 GB doesn't help at all; 2 GB is MORE than enough especially when the GPU is doing all the work.

  9. Re:Server 2008 = Windows 7 on One Third of New PCs Downgraded To XP? · · Score: 1

    A friggin game requires 4 GB of RAM???? How sad are you.

  10. Re:Server 2008 = Windows 7 on One Third of New PCs Downgraded To XP? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    4GB of RAM?? Overclocked? Are you serious? Why? What are you doing... decoding the genome of a new type of tapeworm you found up your ass? Seriously. Your desktop environment (if you need one) should not require that much RAM and processing power to run continuously and you only need that for high processing intense applications light rendering a friggin 3D movie in high def. I have several machines that get by on 2GB and less and running under 2GHZ. And they can kill most Windows apps on speed... sad to say.

  11. Re:In fairness to software engineering on BSOD Makes Appearance at Olympic Opening Ceremonies · · Score: 1

    Hmmm... methinks the lady doth protest too much. If this is the case, the it wouldn't explain the ongoing problems with the Vista and XP and Server 2003 systems which keep recurring. It also wouldn't explain why I was modded insightful on both my posts for over 5 days until the post went stale and you and you Microsoft shills spent all your points to mod it down. Like I said... methinks the lady doth protest too much.

  12. Re:In fairness to software engineering on BSOD Makes Appearance at Olympic Opening Ceremonies · · Score: 1

    Heh... nice shilling. Obviously you don't know much about how an operating system needs to be built. The kernel should be independent of processes running on it and while NT4 may have gotten BETTER, so has George Bush... but both are pieces of shit.

  13. Re:In fairness to software engineering on BSOD Makes Appearance at Olympic Opening Ceremonies · · Score: 1, Troll

    Well NT only partialy fixed this. Otherwise, rebooting your system after each PATCH would NOT be necessary; you would only need to restart the service. Also, safemode does show required services but unfortunately... far too much is required where it truly is not. Can you get rid of the GUI, can you get rid of Explorer, can you get rid of the mediaPlayer? Some say yes but in actuality you dont because they are still there and running. Are these crucials processes to running a server? No but can you shut them down? Hell no... and will they crash your system or cause a backdoor to be opened in your system? Hell yes.

    By tying everything together, they actually made the system more easy to market and sell other products but NOT more easy to secure or stabilize.

  14. Re:In fairness to software engineering on BSOD Makes Appearance at Olympic Opening Ceremonies · · Score: 1, Informative

    No... bad drivers in Linux only halt the process. They do not bring the entire system down. That is a a major architectural difference between Windows and Linux. If a process dies on Windows (or worse, becomes an out of control process), it CAN bring the entire system down with it. On Linux, only the process dies. This is why you can continually remove processes and daemons that you do not want on Linux as they are not all tied into each other like on Windows.

  15. Re:Good to see... on Official Support For PHP 4 Ends · · Score: 3, Funny

    heh. Actually there were tons of drivers issues with Vista but for entirely different reasons.

  16. Re:Won't effect Seattle either on IBM Granted "Paper-or-Plastic?" Patent · · Score: 1

    Hence the title 'Won't effect Seattle'... duh. The wording 'Washington passed a law' was in reference to city of Seattle which was stated in the title. Pretty self explanatory really.

  17. Won't effect Seattle either on IBM Granted "Paper-or-Plastic?" Patent · · Score: 1

    Washington state passed a law too requiring people to use use reusable bags else they would be charged for paper or plastic bags. Went into effect last week.

  18. Re:For How Long? on Linux Pre-Installs In the UK Hit 2.8% · · Score: 1

    Actually she is. Her camera, scanner and printer all work great and she doesn't worry about viruses anymore. I ssh into her mchine when I need to install something and have NX Machine installed so I can see her desktop and how everything is looking from her viewpoint if she starts experiencing any issues.

    So far, all my calls with her are no just social calls and fewer calls on fixing her computer.

  19. Re:For How Long? on Linux Pre-Installs In the UK Hit 2.8% · · Score: 1

    Heh. I grabbed it and am using it as a spare Ubuntu box. :)

  20. Re:For How Long? on Linux Pre-Installs In the UK Hit 2.8% · · Score: 1

    Honestly, I have a couple that had OLD Windows installs on them that I have since installed Linux on. I even bought an Ubuntu installed Dell for my mom and she hasn't been happier.

  21. Re:EeePC, anybody? on Linux Pre-Installs In the UK Hit 2.8% · · Score: 1

    Dell is selling preinstalled Ubuntu desktops. HP I believe just started selling Ubuntu as well on the desktop.

  22. Re:Yay Miguel on Miguel De Icaza On Mono, Moonlight, and Gnome · · Score: 1

    give me the CVS/SVN repo locale. I'll checkout and build :)

  23. Re:A better sponsorship on Microsoft Sponsors Apache Software Foundation · · Score: 1

    Is PHP made by the Apache foundation? Does Apache automatically come BUNDLED with PHP support? Figure those out and you've got your answer to why people blame IIS and not Apache.

  24. Re:Yay Miguel on Miguel De Icaza On Mono, Moonlight, and Gnome · · Score: 1

    Right... thought as much. We call that Vaporware where I come from.

  25. Re:Yay Miguel on Miguel De Icaza On Mono, Moonlight, and Gnome · · Score: 1

    By the way, whats the name of this service, I'd like to start testing it on Windows immediately if it runs that perfect. Just to see you put your money where your mouth is.